Associative interference and premorbid adjustment in schizophrenia.

This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. who gave generously of their time, knowledge, and experience in the supervision of this study. Special thanks is due Dr. Alan DeWolfe who not only shared his knowledge of schizophrenic behavior, but whose day to day contact with the project was a source of continual encouragement. I am also indebted to Dr. Albert Erlebacker for his consultation on the statistical analysis and to Mr. Joseph Konieczny who was an invaluable assistant in the preparation of the equipment and in the collection of the data for this project. Thanks are also expressed to Mr. Robert Gustafson for his help in obtaining, classifying and matching the patient subjects used in this study. Gratitude is expressed to the Veterans Administration. Hospital, Downey, Illinois for the facilities and resources which were provided for this project. Special thanks are extended to the subjects of this study, the patients and the volunteer hospital staff, without whose generous cooperation , this investigation would not have been possible. ~ Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to my wife, Mary, who spent many hours typing rough drafts and the final oopy ot this dissertation while also admirably meeting her • : more usual duties as wife and mother. To her, too, goes my deepest love, .for her emotional support of this project, as of all my graduate education, has been abundantly present • throughout.